• Live action titles start on page 1 • Anime titles start on page 29 CALL NUM: 778.21 MII 1 videodisc (DVD)(117 min.) + 1 booklet (13 p.).DVD (Region 13 ASSASSINS / DIRECTED BY TAKASHI MIIKE. 4, PAL); dual layer; anamorphic wide screen (16:9) presentation; [Newtown, N.S.W.] : Icon Film Distribution, [2012]. Japanese soundtrack in Dolby Digital mono. 1 videodisc (DVD)(124 min.)DVD (Region 2 and 4, PAL); Soundtrack in Japanese. Optional English subtitles. aspect ratio (2.35:1); soundtrack in Dolby Digital 5.1. OFLC rating: M, including Violence and mature themes. Soundtrack in Japanese. Optional English subtitles: This wildly melodramatic tale of a kabuki female impersonator OFLC rating: MA15+, including Strong violence. who exacts a long-delayed revenge on the men who drove his Thirteen brave samurai must face overwhelming odds in an parents to suicide is played out against a backdrop of comic epic battle against a sadistic lord and his army of 200 to prevent rivalries between thieves in the Tokyo underworld. him from plunging Japan into war. CALL NUM: 778.21 CHI CALL NUM: 778.21 INA ALIEN VS NINJA : AVN / WRITTEN, EDITED AND DIRECTED BY SEIJI THE 47 RONIN / PRODUCED BY SANEZUMI FUJIMOTO, TOMOYUKI CHIBA. TANAKA, HIROSHI INAGAKI ; SCREENPLAY BY TOSHIO YASUMI ; [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2011], c2010. DIRECTED BY HIROSHI INAGAKI. 1 videodisc (DVD)(90 min.)DVD (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2007], c1962. anamorphic wide screen (16:9) presentation; Japanese 1 videodisc (DVD)(199 min.)DVD (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; soundtrack options in 5.1 and 2.0 Dolby Digital, English 16:9 anamorphic wide screen (2.35:1) presentation; Japanese soundtrack in 5.1 Dolby Digital. soundtrack in dual mode. Feature soundtrack options in Japnese and English dub. Soundtrack in Japanese. Optional English subtitles. Optional English subtitles. OFLC rating: M, including Moderate themes. OFLC rating: MA15+, including Strong violence and coarse "In 18th century Japan, society is ruled by the etiquette set by language, Blood and gore. the Shogunate. When a young lord refuses to become involved Once upon a time in Japan, there was a band of great Iga with a corrupt chancellor, his lands are forfeited and his samurai Ninja warriors led by Yamata. One day they witness a flash in the disbanded. The samurai are torn between orders from the sky and a roaring giant ball of fire crashing into the distant forest. Shogun and loyalty to their lord." -- FROM CONTAINER. The warriors rush into the deep woods in an attempt to identify the mysterious fireball. There, betraying their expectations, they are stunned to find new enemies. Never-seen-before creatures with claws and fangs; ALIENS! CALL NUM: 778.21 MII ACE ATTORNEY = GYAKUTEN SAIBAN / DIRECTED BY TAKASHI MIIKE.|ACE ATTORNEY = 逆転裁判 / DIRECTED BY TAKASHI CALL NUM: 778.21 KIT MIIKE.| [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2013]. ALIVE / SCREENPLAY BY RYUHEI KITAMURA, YUDAI YAMAGUCHI, 1 videodisc (DVD)(129 min.)DVD (Region 4, PAL); aspect ISAO KIRIYAMA ; PRODUCED BY HIDEMI SATANI WITH TAIZO ratio (2.35:1); soundtrack in Dolby Digital 5.1. FUKUMAKI ; DIRECTED BY RYUHEI KITAMURA. Soundtrack in Japanese. Optional English subtitles. Director's cut OFLC rating: M, including Violence, Coarse language. [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2006], c2002. With the storyline based primarily on the first game in the Ace 1 videodisc (DVD)(114 min.) BookDVD (Region 4, PAL); dual Attorney series (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney), the series' layer; anamorphic (1.85:1) presentation; Japanese soundtrack in signature style is combined with a courtroom drama. Rookie 5.1 or 2.0 Dolby Digital, English soundtrack in 5.1 Dolby Digital. defense attorney Phoenix Wright strives to protect his clients in Soundtracks in Japanese or English. Optional English subtitles. various murder trials, including the death of his mentor, Mia Fey OFLC rating: MA15+ and the accusation of rival prosecutor, Miles Edgeworth. Wright's Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering greatest ally is Mia's younger sister Maya Fey, a spirit medium the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to whose body is possessed by Mia to communicate with him. survive his execution and is presented with an option: face Wright is later given the task of solving the DL-6 case, a murder another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and that has not been solved for 15 years. He will also go against dangerous experiments. He chooses the latter and is put in a cell Manfred von Karma, a prosecuting attorney who has not lost a with a rapist and a woman who's infected with a taint that case in 40 years. Sci-fi elements are also used, such as transports from person to person during extreme anger. The taint characters bringing up holographic images of evidence during is transferred to Tenshu and he must now deal with the military trials. who has interrupted the experiment to obtain it. CALL NUM: 778.21 ICH CALL NUM: 778.21 YAM AN ACTOR'S REVENGE = YUKINOJŌ HENGE / DIRECTED BY KON ALWAYS SUNSET ON THIRD STREET = ALWAYS SANCHŌME NO YŪHI DIRECTOR AMAZAKI AKASHI LWAYS SUNSET ON ICHIKAWA.|AN ACTOR'S REVENGE = 雪之丞変化 / DIRECTED BY / , Y T .|A 三丁目の夕日 KON ICHIKAWA.| THIRD STREET = ALWAYS / DIRECTOR, Directors suite YAMAZAKI TAKASHI.| [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, [2010], c1963. [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, 2008, c2005. 1 28-Aug-14 Video catalogue (VHS, DVD) – Live action & anime - detailed listing ordered by title Japan Foundation, Sydney, Library • Live action titles start on page 1 • Anime titles start on page 29 1 videodisc (DVD)(133 min.)DVD (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; and the widower falls for a ballerina with a suspicious past. Their anamorphic wide screen (16:9) presentation; feature soundtrack courtship veers from polite romance to psycho nightmare! options (Japanese) in 5.1 Dolby Digital and 2.0 Dolby Digital. Feature soundtrack in Japanese with optional English subtitles. OFLC rating: PG, including Mild themes and Infrequent coarse CALL NUM: 778.21 OZU language. AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON = SANMA NO AJI / DIRECTED BY Set in postwar Japan in 1958 during the construction of the YASUJIRO OZU ; SCREENPLAY BY KOGO NODA, YASUJIRO Tokyo Tower, the movie begins with the arrival of young Mutsuko in Tokyo from her provincial home. Expecting to find a job in a OZU.|AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON = 秋刀魚の味 / DIRECTED BY major automotive company, she finds herself in the employment YASUJIRO OZU ; SCREENPLAY BY KOGO NODA, YASUJIRO OZU.| of a small automotive repair shop. [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, 2006. 2 videodiscs (DVD)(120 min.)DVD (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; full frame original ration (4:3) presentation; Japanese soundtrack in 2.0 Dolby Digital. CALL NUM: 778.253 OIK Disc 1 (the feature film): Feature soundtracks in Japanese with APARTMENT 1303 / DIRECTED BY ATARU OIKAWA. optional Japanese subtitles. Disc 2: Soundtrack in Japanese with Original Japanese version. Japanese subtitles for the documentary. [Australia] : Eagle Entertainment, c2007. OFCL rating: PG, including Mild themes. 1 videodisc (DVD)(ca. 97 min.)DVD (Region 2 and 4, PAL); "Since the death of his wife, salaryman Shuhei Hirayama has aspect ratio (2.35:1); soundtrack in Dolby Digital 5.1. depended on his unmarried daughter Michiko. After a chance Soundtrack in Japanese. English subtitles. encounter with an old friend, he decides he must find his OFLC rating: M, including Horror theme and violence. daughter a husband, and enlists the help of his weternised son "Sayaka was exicted at the prospect of striking out on her Koichi and his wife Akiko. As Hirayama assesses potential own; so excited that she invited her closest friends to her new suitors, director Yasujiro Ozu focusses on the competing apartment to celebrate. In the middle of the party, however, pressures of loss, hope and the relevance of traditional culture Sayaka begins acting very strangely and lunges over the balcony within a modernising society" -- From Container. to her death. But Sayaka was never suicidal, and her friends refuse to believe that she could have taken her own life"-- container. CALL NUM: 778.21 OSH AVALON / DIRECTED BY MAMORU OSHII.|アヴァロン| [Collingwood, VIC.] : Madman Entertainment, c2000 CALL NUM: 778.21 KIT 1 videodisc (DVD)(107 min.)DVD (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; ARAGAMI / DIRECTED BY RYUHEI KITAMURA ; PRODUCED BY anamorphic wide screen (16:9) presentation; Polish soubitles in SHINYA KAWAI.|荒神 / DIRECTED BY RYUHEI KITAMURA ; 5.1 Dolby Digital and 2.1 Dolby Digital. PRODUCED BY SHINYA KAWAI.| Feature soundtrack in Polish with optional English subtitles. [Collingwood, Vic.] : Madman Entertainment, 2006. OFLC rating: M15+, including Medium level violence. 1 videodisc (DVD)(76 min.)DVD (Region 4, PAL); dual layer; "Avalon is an illegal and potentially lethal computer program of anamorphic wide screen (1.85:1) presentation; Japanese the future - a virtual reality battlefield simulation game where soundtrack in 5.1 Dolby Digital and 5.1 dts, English soundtrack in players compete for money and prestige. Ash hasa reached the 2.0 Dolby Digital. exalted 'Warrior class' with aspirations to penetrate the secret Feature soundtracks in Japanese and English with optional "Class A" special level - a level where players run the risk of English subtitles. being 'reset' - gaming euphemism for their actual death in a OFCL rating: M, including Moderate violence, Moderate virtual environment. Investigating a conspiracy - Ash decides to themes. take on the shadowy Avalon programmers." -- FROM "Deep in the mountains of Ancient Japan, a wounded samurai CONTAINER. takes refuge in a temple. Collapsing with exhaustion, he awakens to find himself miraculously healed. A mysterious host tells of the legend of Aragami - an immortal who feasts on the flesh of men - and that the only way for him to survive is to defeat CALL NUM: 778.21 KIT Aragami - in a fight to the death!" -- FROM CONTAINER.